Course Outline
- Overview of OpenStack architecture
- Course-specific OpenStack lab (VM) setup
- Message queue and database services
- Hardware requirements and capacity planning
- Compute hardware specifications
- Network design strategies
- Storage architecture
- Flavor sizing guidelines
- Resource overcommitment techniques
- High-availability control plane
- HA implementation in OpenStack services
- Highly available database configurations
- Highly available message queue systems
- Cloud partitioning and scheduler filters
- Rationale and implementation of cloud partitions (host-aggregates)
- Nova scheduler filters
- Workload migration
- Cold and live migration procedures
- Omitizing live migration
- Watcher project overview
- Deep dive into OpenStack networking (SDN) (2-3 hours)
- Network types (local, flat, VLAN, VXLAN, GRE)
- Neutron plugins
- Linux Bridge
- Open vSwitch
- Distributed Virtual Routers
- LBaaS and Octavia project
- VPNaaS
- Troubleshooting
- General approaches to diagnosing OpenStack issues
- Diagnosing network problems
- Log file analysis
- Centralized logging strategies
- Debugging OpenStack client queries
- Managing the OpenStack database
- OpenStack backup procedures
- Evaluating compute node status
- Evaluating instance status
- Analyzing the AMQP broker (RabbitMQ)
- Metadata services
- Troubleshooting network performance issues
- Instance backup and recovery
- OpenStack monitoring and telemetry
- Ceilometer service
- External monitoring tools
- Advanced cloud and hypervisor features
- CPU pinning and NUMA architecture
- SR-IOV
- Cloud-init and image customization
- Metadata Service
- Block storage backends
- LVM
- Ceph RBD
- Physical storage appliances
- Storage network considerations
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Upgrade strategies and procedures
- Zero-downtime upgrades
- Bare-metal provisioning with OpenStack
- Ironic module
- Undercloud and overcloud concepts
- The future of OpenStack
Requirements
- Foundational Linux administration skills
- Basic understanding of networking concepts
- Introduction to the cloud computing paradigm
- Practical and theoretical familiarity with OpenStack
Testimonials (5)
The virtual desktop in a browser feature was kind of neat.
Mikael Karlsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
Damian, is very skilled, I'm very pleased with everything, no complains, best training session I've participated in for a long time… It's very difficult to have a training course like this, totally remote, you did a great job, It went very well, there were no issues.
Peter Erlandsson - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The flexibility to answer questions. Good pdf, good examples
Conny Vigstrom - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
The broad perspective of Openstack, no chance to dive in to deep to be able to keep schedule, more to where to get information from.
Jorgen Selegran - Polystar OSIX
Course - OpenStack Architecture and Troubleshooting
To get a better understanding about OpenStack.